Fareed Zakaria writes:
Islam has a problem today. The places that have trouble accommodating themselves to the modern world are disproportionately Muslim.
In 2013, of the top 10 groups that perpetrated terrorist attacks, seven were Muslim. Of the top 10 countries where terrorist attacks took place, seven were Muslim-majority. The Pew Research Center rates countries on the level of restrictions that governments impose on the free exercise of religion. Of the 24 most restrictive countries, 19 are Muslim-majority. Of the 21 countries that have laws against apostasy, all have Muslim majorities.
There is a cancer of extremism within Islam today….
Read more at Fareed Zakaria: Let’s be honest, Islam has a problem right now – The Washington Post.
Reblogged this on End Times And 2019 and commented:
We are already experiencing the middle stages of a crisis in which the West, dominated by extreme tolerance and acceptance of ideas, is under attack by a religion which – as religions are prone to do – intolerantly does not accept the outside world or values contrary to itself. It seems that one of three things must eventually happen – the material benefits and advancements achieved in the liberal, democratic West will be so amazing that the Muslim world will accept the ways of the West (this doesn’t seem to be happening) or the West will be taken over by an Islamic invasion it refuses to even acknowledge because it accepts foreign people and ideas (this is happening) or there will be a great war; a “Clash of Civilizations” as Huntington described it.